DBYC Pursuit Race: DB to Cheung Chau

View East from Cheung Chau Life Saving Club.  Yachts and helipad

Off to the measurers....

Last Tuesday 16th August we took Xena to Sai Kung, to be emptied of all gear on board - right down to cutlery and crockery, anchors, water, the lot -- and then have the Overhangs measured.  This in aid of seeing if our handicap -- which went up 13 pips last time -- can be brought back down to a more reasonable level.  The measurements do seem better, and we await results from RORC.
Worth noting -- with due chagrin -- that the last measurements with used figures put into our Cert by RORC had a typo!  (not ours, theirs: and only coming to light after these official measurements).
Anyway, we cross fingers and wait.

Noel, Jo-jo and guests Bert and Jan

A crystal clear day in Hong Kong

Gideon gets down to the job

Sai Kung weather and sea state cooperated well, for good measurements

Hong Kong Island, E. Peninsula-ish, on way back; lovely day

Babs crewed with us in last year's King's Cup and is now in the round-the-world Clipper Race on "Gold Coast Australia", which won Race One and is leading race two.
Check them out here. "Gold Coast" is the green boat with yellow stars.  Click on it for info.
Report on Race Two, to date, by crew member, Army Officer Wayne Reed, here.
They'll be back in this part of the world around May/June next year.
A couple of photos with Babs:

Babs and PF getting off the Longtail boat, Kata Beach, Phuket, Dec 2010

Babs in the middle, Klaus and TC on either side, crew party, King's Cup 2010

New North Sail "Loft"...

Good to hear that business is so good at the newly moved-in North Loft in Sai Kung, that we've had to move Xena's racing sails out -- to the North sub-loft, aka our basement in DB....
Below, Noel and Arlene, laying them out tenderly....
Reminder: check out the Clipper Gold Coast Australia, with our Babs on board, doing the whole round the world.  Babs' email here.

Noel and Arlene: all the North racing sail here, including four kites.